Kai Fu Han

Chapter 354 The Whistleblower

It wasn't until one day that a "whistleblower" appeared who harmed others but not himself, and Xu Zhong, who was listening carefully, found out about it.

This man's name is Cao Fangfang. Eleven lazy and jobless vagrants were left to die under the knees of their old parents, idle in the village.

There are people in this village who joined the Xinghan League very early, and I heard that they are still working in the "Imperial City Envoy" or "Yushitai" of the Xinghan League.

In fact, it was just listening, but because of the confidentiality system, I did not introduce my work in detail to my family when I returned to the village to visit my family.

Although Cao Fangfang has many shortcomings, he also has one advantage.

Because he is idle and likes to chat and hang out with others, he is relatively well-informed about the village's information. He can tell everything about the parents and family members.

There was a landowner in this village who was very dissatisfied with the Xinghan League. Before the Xinghan League attacked, his family took a boat to the sea and fled.Due to the hasty escape, only a small part of the family's land was sold. Before leaving, I met Cao Fangfang and kindly reminded him that before he came back, it was better to cultivate his own land than to let the land go to waste.

Cao Fangfang was lazy and would not farm, but he kept the news in mind.

Unexpectedly, after the second official recruitment examination, officials from the Youxing Han League came to the village to conduct a census and measure the cultivated land.The original landowner's land was deemed ownerless, and he planned to recruit villagers to rent the land for farming.Two days later, there was another owner. The landlord was a gentry from a neighboring village.

People in the village dare not speak out in anger. Anyway, according to the land law of the Xinghan League, no matter whose land is rented, the land rent is [-]%. The difference is that the cultivated land belonging to the alliance can eventually become their own land, while the land rented by private individuals has always been Someone else’s land.

After all, the Xinghan League is a newly developed force. The villagers do not have enough trust in the Xinghan League. Who can say for sure what will happen in more than ten years? No one will report collusion with the new government officials for such illusory interests. of gentry.

After some time, the listening spies in the village took turns to go home to visit relatives. During the chat, Cao Fangfang mentioned this matter as gossip.

Diting is the earliest intelligence agency of the Xinghan League, and internal supervision is its main responsibility.

When he heard that the corruption incident that the alliance leader was most disgusted with and hated was happening under his nose, he would of course investigate it carefully.

In the end, the matter was reported to Xu Zhong.

"Have you checked it out?"

"The evidence is conclusive that the land deeds of the gentry were forged. There are also properties of unknown origin in the homes of three officials." Xu Zhonghui reported.

Officials in the Xinghan League need to declare their property. Xu Zhong sent soldiers to sneak into the homes of the three people and searched, and determined that their current property exceeded the sum of the amount of property they declared when they joined the Xinghan League and their monthly salary. , and the amount exceeded is huge.

"Now that we have found out clearly, let's hand over the evidence to the Ministry of Supervision, and then let the Ministry of Supervision prosecute the case in court." Liu Xinqi said.

Now that the "Xinghan League Administrative Law" has been implemented, for this kind of corruption case, Liu Xinqi cannot do whatever he wants, and can only be tried by relevant departments in accordance with procedures.

Liu Xinqi can only supervise them to strictly enforce the law and speed up the progress. "Yes! Alliance leader!"

"By the way, take [-]% of the stolen money embezzled by these three people and reward it to Cao Fangfang." Liu Xinqi added.

"Why is that?" Xu Zhong wondered.

"If you have meritorious service, you will be rewarded."

"But the amount embezzled by the three people this time is very huge. If the reward is 500%, it will exceed [-] taels of silver." Xu Zhong reminded.

"No matter how much, you will be rewarded, starting with Cao Fangfang. This system of rewarding whistleblowers will become a regular practice. I will publish an additional page in the "Baixun Bao" on the [-]th to promote Cao Fangfang. This system is called " Whistleblower Act" Liu Xinqi replied.

The so-called "whistleblower" system is a whistleblowing system for insiders, who are often insiders. As insiders, they can detect problems as early as possible, blow the whistle, and significantly reduce supervision costs.

For companies that do not comply with laws and regulations, it can serve as a fortress that can be breached from within.

For a period of time in later generations, China was troubled by food safety issues, and people once did not believe that the food produced in their own country was safe.

The United States also faced food safety problems in the late [-]th century. At that time, the Whistleblower Act played a positive role in protecting whistleblowers and encouraging citizens to participate in supervision.

The "Whistleblower Act" was developed in the United States. It allows individuals or a group to investigate and punish companies or related beneficiaries that have received funding from the U.S. federal and local governments. If the quality is substandard, they can file lawsuits.If the Ministry of Justice files a lawsuit after conducting its own investigation, the individual can receive 15%-25% of the compensation amount.Individuals can also serve as prosecutors themselves, and if successful can receive 25%-30% of the compensation amount.

At present, the supervision system of Xinghan League is backward, the supervision mechanism is imperfect, and there is no high-tech means to strengthen supervision, so this incentive system is very necessary:

First of all, being a whistleblower requires not only conscience and courage, but also financial incentives.An effective system relies on a legal economy and a standardized legal economic system, and cannot rely solely on citizen consciousness.Everyone is afraid of trouble, and even more afraid of trouble that is not beneficial to them. The reward mechanism of the whistleblower system can effectively mobilize the initiative of the people. Compared with the government spending a lot of money to strengthen supervision, the cost is much lower.

Secondly, this incentive system is very feasible, not only in the food industry.In many other industries, after experiencing the industrial revolution and social division of labor, they have basically implemented an industrial chain development model in which each process is divided.In this industrial chain development model, safety issues often penetrate into each process.Faced with such a complicated process, it is naturally the internal employees who are most familiar with the details.Only profit-motivation can make them willing to become "whistleblowers."As "whistleblowers", it is easier for them to promptly curb the deviant, illegal and criminal behaviors of officials and enterprises.

Finally, with this kind of system, officials and business owners will know that they are under the supervision of the people at all times, and the eyes of the people are sharp. Unless they do bad things, they are responsible for them from beginning to end. One person must manage it personally, otherwise there is a possibility of being reported and exposed.This powerful supervision system will also effectively prevent officials and business owners from breaking the law and committing crimes.

Giving people the power to protect their own interests is the best protection.

In this way, the safety of the public is guaranteed, the "whistleblower" also gets benefits, the government has peace of mind, and everyone can benefit from it.

Of course, the Whistleblower Act will certainly not only have rewards, but also penalties.Those who make false accusations or make blind reports waste the government's law enforcement resources and affect the normal production of enterprises, and will be punished according to the degree of impact.

This prevents people from making random reports and revelations, which would overwhelm the government's verification department.

(End of this chapter)